Does a divorce occur by saying "this is the divorce decree" in jest?
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This utterance does not constitute a divorce, because it is a report about a divorce that did not occur. And if it is preponderant that whoever falsely reports divorcing his wife, his divorce does not religiously occur, then here it is even more appropriate that it does not occur.
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